He is recognised for his long-term support for business innovation & growth, particularly within the green economy, in roles such as Secretary of State for Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy & President of the 2021 UN COP, and for championing the important role of physics through the IOP Awards.

Awardee of the IOP Business Start-Up Award:

🏆 MirZyme Therapeutics for pioneering diagnostics and therapeutics to eliminate preeclampsia and transform maternal health.

Awardee of the IOP Business Start-Up Award:

🏆 Celtic Terahertz Technology for the development and commercial establishment of metamaterial filter technology to meet the demanding requirements of future terrestrial and space-based terahertz industries.

Awardee of the IOP Business Start-Up Award:

🏆 Quantum Science for pioneering market-leading short-wave infrared quantum dot technology, enabling revolutionary imaging and sensing capabilities by making the invisible visible.

Awardee of the IOP Business Start-Up Award:

🏆 Nellie for developing a scalable, algae-based carbon removal technology that uses physics-driven thermochemical conversion to turn biomass into biochar, enabling negative emissions and boosting soil health in UK agriculture.

Awardee of the IOP Business Start-Up Award:

🏆 Wayland Additive for the development & commercialisation of charge-neutralised electron beam metal additive manufacturing, overcoming process shortfalls of existing technology solutions & enabling a wider range of process materials & process parameters.

Awardee of the IOP Business Start-Up Award:

🏆 Astron Systems for the development of long-lifetime turbomachinery to enable multi-reuse small rocket engines and bring about fully reusable small launch vehicles.

Awardee of the IOP Business Innovation Award:

🏆 Lynkeos Technology for pioneering the commercial development of muography into a nuclear industry adopted technology for the condition monitoring and inspection of waste containers during long-term storage.

Awardee of the IOP Business Innovation Award:

🏆 @sunamp.bsky.social for the development of groundbreaking compact thermal storage using advanced finned tube heat exchanger technology, significantly enhancing heat transfer efficiency and energy storage in high flow rate hot water applications.

Awardee of the IOP Business Innovation Award:

🏆 FlexEnable @flexenable.bsky.social for the development and industrialisation of breakthrough organic transistor materials and a platform for curved displays and liquid crystal optics.

Awardee of the IOP Business Innovation Award:

🏆 Oxford Instruments @oxfordinstruments.bsky.social for the development of a breakthrough analytical technique in scanning electron microscopes, enabling new capabilities and accelerating time to results by at least an order of magnitude.

Awardee of the IOP Business Innovation Award:

🏆 Thales UK for developing an innovative design of solid-state laser optimised for high performance laser rangefinders. The technology has helped the UK expand key capabilities in sensor systems for critical security projects.

Awardee of the IOP Business Innovation Award:

🏆 Ionoptika for the development of Q-One, a new generation of focused ion beam instrumentation, providing single atom through to high-dose nanoscale advanced materials engineering for photonic and quantum technologies.

Awardee of the IOP Business Innovation Award:

🏆 @tokamakenergy.bsky.social for the development of compact, powerful, robust, quench-resilient, high-temperature superconducting magnets towards commercial fusion energy and novel propulsion systems, particle accelerators and scientific instruments.

The evening ended with a keynote lecture from Professor Liz Bentley, chief executive of the Royal Meteorological Society, on the evolving landscape of science communication.

A huge congratulations to all of this year’s Recognition Award recipients! 👏